A bunch of one-passenger planes that flock together via software control in a "V" formation.
-- JesusHChrist, Oct 20 2012

Are they ground-controlled by Major Tom or follow-me-to-Canada?
-- Alterother, Oct 21 2012


so not a flock'o'geese powered aircraft ?

[mfd] baked (ie: it's called formation flying), magic (add software) or half-baked (I recall a similar idea here with gliders with joined wings).
-- FlyingToaster, Oct 21 2012


Wow [FlyingToaster], you triple mfd'ed him. Special.
-- blissmiss, Oct 21 2012


//a flock'o'geese powered aircraft// would be too much like [MB]'s Ant Shoes.
-- sqeaketh the wheel, Oct 21 2012


Nothing can be too much like my ant shoes.

Incidentally, flocking would work well for ekranoplanes, as long as they tessellated nicely.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 21 2012


Ekranoplans? Really? Are you deliberately trying to provoke me?
-- Alterother, Oct 21 2012


now hold on, it can be baked, magic, or halfbaked but only one of those things.
-- Voice, Oct 21 2012


//provoke me?// There's nothing provocative about that. Everyone knows that ekranoplans are (a) seriously uncool, and (b) vastly more efficient, thus making pedal-powered flapping geeseplanes trivially easy.
-- spidermother, Oct 27 2012


Do I have to be the first person to put a million fake dollars behind this idea?
-- daseva, Oct 27 2012



random, halfbakery